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Toothache :(

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Fluffy Jo

Fluffy Jo

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Morning everyone.
Ive been suffering with toothache for a week.The dentist cant fit me in until the 21st May (10 days and counting!).
Im taking 2 Nurofen every 4 hours or so...which im not happy about as im not one for taking tablets as a rule.
Is it ok to keep doing this for as long as I need to? Am I doing any damage? Is there an alternative I could take?
Thank you x
 
Good morning 🙂

I hate toothache.....I feel your pain!!!! I had a really bad knee last year from work and I had to take a course of ibuprofen for a month and had no problems, if you cannot wait till your appointment, how about go down to your local hospital?....I had a abscess many years ago and the dentist would not take my tooth out until the abscess had gone down through a coarse of antibotics....it did not go down so went to the hospital dentist had to wait but got seen that day and they took it out!!! what a relief that was :D

Hope you get it sorted a.s.a.p
 
I am very surprised you are having to wait for so long, you should get an emergency appointment. If your dentist can't offer it then ask what the procedure is for getting one at the hospital. Toothache suggests an infection and with diabetes that can be a bad thing. Certainly, waiting 10 days when you have already waited a week could be potentially bad news as you could end up with an abscess :(

Only you know how bad it is but I would be seeking to be seen much earlier than your surgery can offer. Good luck!
 
If you think that an infection might be responsible for your tooth pain, then swilling hot salty water round your mouth might help - a dental nurse recommended that to me for emerging wisdom teeth.

Ask a pharmacist about pain relief - oil of cloves applied to affected tooth is often said to help.

You could try to get an emergency appointment with another dentist or at a dental hospital, if you have one within reasonable reach.
 
If you phone your dentist as an emergency and say it is can you not get an early apt ?, that's what my dentist does they squeeze you in at about 8.30 am. I would try especially if you have an infection. Toothache is so painful I don't know how you are going to last until the 21st :(
 
If you do not have Dentaline locally - or it is out of hours for it - you can use 111. It is for dentists and doctor advice. I used it last year for my husband when given 3 weeks to an appt with a tooth broken by the dentist!! There were 4 emergency dentists within a 10 mile radius - not the ordinary dental practices but specialist services usually for the disabled or those terrified of them. We were given a specific appt for 10.30 that am and by 12 had had 2 teeth removed which had roots stuck in the jaw bone. It took 2 dentists in turn to hold onto him and to pull with extra injections along the way!! When we back to original dentist to complain he was banned from the practice- well he did offer to give them the same treatment he had been put through !!
 
Toothache does warrant an emergency so you should be fitted in with your dental practice, same day usually but if not, definitely the next day. Phone them again, if not ask what the out of hours dental number is, you should be seen by someone before the 21st!
 
Someone i know tried to get get an emergency dentist for son over the Easter bank holiday,multiple phones to no avail. ended having his tooth out on the Tuesday. They were going to write a letter of complaint.
 
I feel your pain ....having had abcesses etc and loosing teeth as a result ....last time I had such a wait I saw my Gp who put me on the antibio I needed ...in the meantime you can get dentinox from the chemist ....check it out with pharmacist . Also taking paracetamol with the ibrophen is good or a codine based with ibrophen ...talk to pharmacist x
 
I woke up one Saturday morning in winter about 30 years ago with raging toothache. It was shutting one eye it was so violent. Actually I'd been awake nearly all night so was like a zombie and had been on the paracetamol throughout. I rang the dentist, knew the emergency number was on their recorded answer.

Got that, didn't recognise the code but rang it, got the dentist in question's wife. Yes yes, get here as soon as you can. Where are you? (I was in Kiddermister) They were the other side of Ludlow, 35 miles away, plus the network of lanes to then get chez dentist.

Husband at work; sister out; friend ditto. So I got in my car and drove there myself. With a box of tissues on the passenger seat cos by now I was crying with pain. I negotiate the jams through Bewdley and on I go. I'd just got onto the start of Clee Hill (open moorland, cattle grids, free range sheep) when the snow started so the rest of the drive was through a snowstorm. All really great and designed to cheer me up.

I get there. go down the drive, out the car and gingerly walk to the door, shoes not designed for snow, he greets me, we go into his surgery, I tell him all about it, open my mouth and Nada. The pain had completely gone just like that. He could find absolutely zip wrong with me, though he poked prodded and blew freezing air into every nook and cranny.

I have never felt so a) completely stupid and b) totally infuriated with my stupid body before or since.

You never know; perhaps you'll wake up tomorrow and be as lucky as me? But there MUST be an emergency dentist so just in case you better get an appointment asap !
 
Teeth and toothache be a mystery, can't they?
Snow and wandering sheep on Clee Hill are to be expected, in my experience of journeys between SE Birmingham and near Craven Arms, over the decades!

Any progress with getting an earlier appointment, Fluffy Jo?
 
Thanks for all your replies and sorry ive not been about.Works has been manic.I spoke to a pharmacist who told me to take paracetomol with ibuprofen and some clove oil.Rang my dentist who put me on the cancellation list but nothing so far.The good news is that ive not had toothache for 2 days now...gum still aches a bit but nothing like it was.I spoke to a friend of mine whos daughter goes to the same dental practice and she said she'd broken her tooth and was in agony but they couldn't get her in until the 30th May.Said the same thing to her..they are unusually busy!! Hm...might have to change dentists after this..only thing is..like many people...im not overly keen on going and have got used to the lady I have, so don't mind going.
Thanks again for all your advice x
 
if it's an infection, you could try gargling with: warm water + salt, chlorhexidine mouthwash, colloidal silver, virgin coconut oil

any of these are anti-bacterial.
 
Glad things seem better x the combination of paracetmol and ibrophen is a great painkiller ....glad you checked with pharmacist
 
Yep great advice given by all..thanks a lot...been gargling with that stuff off the telly...jeez my memory is getting worse...not gaviscon..not Listerine...nope..its not coming to me grrr 😡
 
Fluffy Jo said:
Yep great advice given by all..thanks a lot...been gargling with that stuff off the telly...jeez my memory is getting worse...not gaviscon..not Listerine...nope..its not coming to me grrr 😡
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